Side Of The Road

Hazard of a previous job.

I spent most of a decade sharing an office with the most prolific commercial pumpkin breeder (he had a peduncle collection in his desk).

I then was his product manager and got to travel all over world introducing and naming new varieties. The most common and identifiable one I introduced for him was the medium sized one with the dark green warts (Warty Goblin). However about 70% of the varieties at the grocery store and patch are ones I named.

https://us.stokeseeds.com/hybridpumpkin-wartygoblin-0780267t.html

He was a very talented breeder and I got to let my inner kid free. I did get push back from people who didn't understand the market for my official reason for chosing a variety. Apparently writing "because it's cool" wasn't good enough for them.